Video-recordings related to Ivan Demianiuk's case
The dance libretto and concepts for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Voices of the Silenced, directed by Gordon Gordey. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.
This series includes materials collected during interviews with people in Wakaw, SK and with a person who has visited the Wakaw healer. This series includes 2 transcripts, 2 audio files, a business card, and 2 crystals.
The series contains founding documents and information about the Dr. Wasyl and Parasia Iwanec (Krysa) Endowment Fund.
Iwanec, Parasia and WasylThe series contains a handwritten biography, two notebooks of memoirs, typed "The Sawka family" story told by Wasyl Iwanec and translated by Michael Sawka, as well as a newspaper clippings of his bio and obituary.
Iwanec, Parasia and WasylThe series consists of a biography of William Kostash, newspaper clipping of an article about him (in Ukrainian), and a list of descendants of Fred and Anna Kostash and educational degrees they received.
The series consists of letters, reviews, minutes, bulletins, etc. of the following organizations:
- Ukrainian Language Association [later: Ukrainian Lang. Assoc. of the Alberta Modern Lang. Council (Alberta Teachers' Assoc.)]
- Ukrainian Canadian Teachers' Association
- Ukrainian Language Teachers' Organization
- Alberta Ethnic Language Teachers' Association
- Council of Ukrainian Schools (Рада української школи в Канаді, later - Ukrainian Educational Council of Canada) (1970-1982)
- Ukrainian Self-Reliance League
- Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, provincial executive
- Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta
- North and South Alberta Heritage Language Association
- Alberta Cultural Heritage Council
- Ukrainian Canadian Committee
In addition, the series contains:
- clippings of newspaper publications by Fiona Pelech,
- newspaper clippings about multiculturalism and bilingual education by other authors
- Fiona Pelech's correspondence
- Fiona Pelech's to do lists containing notes on Ukrainian community life, events, and meetings, etc.
- other materials
Six audiocassettes with recordings of the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League meeting on Aug 19-20, 1989 (3 cassettes) and Alberta Ethnic Language Teachers' Association meetings (including constitution debates, 2 cassettes); one cassette with a meeting of unknown organization.